[agee]

Your tax dollar at work.

[Errant]

The total approved expenditures for the Federal 2011 budget is 3.36 trillion dollars.

Or about 25 times the value of the world's gold production for the entire year!

[BatGuano]

I use seconds (time) to illustrate how much the millions, billions, TRILLIONS really mean. The next level is not a round up it is 1,000 times the last!

1 million seconds = 12 days

1 billion seconds = 32 years

1 trillion seconds = 32,000 years

Does anyone in Washington, DC know or even care about this when increasing the DEBT or budget deficits?

The answer is NO.

[DuncanWaring]

Another way of looking at it:

In one year, light travels 6 trillion miles.

In one year, Congress spends roughly 3.5 trillion dollars.

That means Congress spends a dollar in less time than it takes light to travel two miles.

[ArcadeQuarters]

And another way... over $10,000 per man, woman and child every year. When is it enough?

[Graewoulf]

Try this:

Google the thickness of the rag/paper that the BOE uses to make paper money.

Pretend that the BOE still prints $1000 bills (Nixon stopped it).

Calculate how deep a pit would be required to bury 3 stacks of $ 1000 bills as follows:
1.) 1 million dollar value;

2.) 1 billion dollar value;

3.) 1 trillion dollar value.

Then sit down and sip on a Shiner Bock, maybe two - - -

[Errant]